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Re: [rtlToronto] rtlToronto20 Near Final Ruleset
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Mon, 12 Dec 2005 17:13:13 GMT
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In lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto, Rob Antonishen <rob.antonishen@gmail.com> wrote:
And HTML shouldn't behave that way of the formatting/CSS is set up
properly.  A question for Calum might be what application is being
used for generating the rules, as it seems to be ugly.........

....oh wait, I just checked the page source and found the problem:
<meta name="GENERATOR" content="Microsoft FrontPage Express 2.0">

Actually, I use Dreamweaver MX, the tag is a leftover from when I used to use
FPE, which, despite it's reputation, actually output some pretty clean HTML.

What I'll ask you to do, is to give me a reformatted version of the existing
rulepage, which looks reasonably the same, and can print and be viewed onscreen.

I personally don't know enough about CSS to do this analysis.

P.S. Calum - gmail has a built in spell checker.....oh that's right,
you don't like gmail :)

Proofing has nothing to do with spell checking, which Chris and Derek are
shining examples of.  What I'm concerned about is making sure I don't contradict
myself on rules, miss issues or criteria completely, or write a sentence that
doesn't make sense.  I certainly do all of these things, and spell checking
won't fix it, only a good long careful read will.

And I don't like GMail.

Calum



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  Re: [rtlToronto] rtlToronto20 Near Final Ruleset
 
(...) Well.... you have discovered one of the significant weaknesses of CSS based layouts. The lack of true separation between content and presentation. Because you are using fixed width DIV's, when printing them the fixed width is respected. i.e. (...) (19 years ago, 12-Dec-05, to lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto)

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  Re: [rtlToronto] rtlToronto20 Near Final Ruleset
 
(...) duh :) I do know how to print. The rules pages are always a major pain though, as the text always gets clipped off no matter how I scale it. Some of the formatting that works on the screen fails when rendering for the printer. Reading Calum's (...) (19 years ago, 12-Dec-05, to lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto)

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